3 June 2008
News and Comments - 06/03/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
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Cameron Says:
3 June 2008 at 5:55 am.
UN: 1 million in Myanmar aren’t getting basic aid
By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 3, 3:38 AM ET
BANGKOK, Thailand - More than 1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and it’s not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Humanitarian groups say they continue to face hurdles from Myanmar’s military government in sending disaster experts and vital equipment into the country. As a result, only a trickle of aid is reaching the storm’s estimated 2.4 million survivors, leaving many without even basic relief.
Aid groups are unable to provide 1.3 million survivors with sufficient food and clean water, while trying to prevent a second wave of deaths from malnutrition and disease, the U.N. said in its latest assessment report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_one_month_on
Cameron Says:
3 June 2008 at 8:40 am.
UN chief: food production must rise 50 percent by 2030
ROME - World food production must rise by 50 percent by 2030 to meet increasing demand, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders Tuesday at a summit grappling with hunger and civil unrest caused by food price hikes.
The secretary-general told the Rome summit that nations must minimize export restrictions and import tariffs during the food price crisis and quickly resolve world trade talks.
“The world needs to produce more food,” Ban said.
The Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is hosting the three-day summit to try to solve the short-term emergency of increased hunger caused by soaring prices and to help poor countries grow enough food to feed their own.
In a message read to the delegates, Pope Benedict XVI said “hunger and malnutrition are unacceptable in a world which, in reality, has sufficient production levels, the resources, and the know-how to put an end to these tragedies and their consequences.”
The Pope told the world leaders that millions of people at threat in countries with security concerns were looking to them for solutions.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_re_eu/un_food_crisis;_ylt=ArYJsRPTYQLkmQybNq434LP9xg8F
Mac Says:
3 June 2008 at 9:31 am.
Don’t tell nobody because its embarrassing but I’m a real sucker for Mickey. Love it.
Tony Says:
3 June 2008 at 10:09 am.
Mickey is a funny little guy. He is awsome.
Tony Says:
3 June 2008 at 10:12 am.
If each of us would plant a lettle veggie garden things might be a little easier.
Joy Bischoff Says:
3 June 2008 at 10:26 am.
Tony, good to see you here. Yup, Mickey is my favorite. Great advice about the veggie garden. I need Stumpy here for ours though. Too many bunnies chewing on our plants.
S.J. Says:
3 June 2008 at 10:41 am.
Very appropriate picture because Mickey is a star and he twinkles.
Matt Says:
3 June 2008 at 7:05 pm.
Bird-Flu Exposure Detected in 15,000 Hens in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tyson Foods Inc. has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens in northwest Arkansas that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the avian flu that is not harmful to humans, state officials said Tuesday.
Jon Fitch, director of the state’s Livestock and Poultry Commission, said routine blood tests conducted Friday found the possible exposure. Further tests done by the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found the birds did not have active infections, but rather were exposed to a subtype of the disease.
Fitch said the company immediately began disposing of the birds.
“There is absolutely no human health threat,” Fitch said. “But we take this very seriously.”
Fitch said state officials decided against announcing the infection to the general public because the birds tested positive for exposure to the H7N3 strain of the virus. The strain that ravaged Asian poultry stocks in late 2003 was H5N1 bird flu virus. That version of the virus has killed 240 people worldwide and scientists worry it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people.
Gary Mickelson, a spokesman for Springdale-based Tyson, said the hens showed no signs of sickness before their pre-slaughter blood tests. He said the exposed birds all came from a contractor.
Ghost Says:
3 June 2008 at 9:58 pm.
My little boy loves the sparkley Mickey. Something for everyone here.
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